Definition of Fat
(Spiritual Fat)
Allow me to define fat. It involves scores
of passive parishioners sitting week after week, soaking up what is in
some cases gourmet preaching, but who are still infected with a disease
called "spectatorism." This mass of untapped potential is generally
educated far beyond their level of obedience, and is not translating
Christian theory into practice. Spectatorism generally creates flabby,
weak, spoon-fed believers who have grown old, but not up, in the Lord.
They know more about church policy than evangelism, and are better
acquainted with parliamentary procedure than with discipleship.
[John Maxwell]
